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OpenPorts.se, originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, [9] was a custom-written web-site that does its own parsing of the ports tree structure and the updates, and has the functionality of tracking changes of a given port, having a shortcoming of not supporting some of the more complicated Makefile logic, and thus missing some 15% of ...
OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by forking NetBSD 1.0. [4] The OpenBSD project emphasizes portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security, and integrated cryptography. [5]
The FreeBSD Ports collection is a package management system for the FreeBSD operating system. Ports in the collection vary with contributed software. There were 38,487 ports available in February 2020 [1] and 36,504 in September 2024. [2] It has also been adopted by NetBSD as the basis of its pkgsrc system.
Firefox is regularly built for the current branch of the operating system, the latest versions are packaged for each release and remain frozen until the next release. In 2017, Landry began hosting packages of newer Firefox versions for OpenBSD releases from 6.0 onwards, making them available to installations without the ports system. [247]
According to OpenBSD expert Michael W. Lucas, OpenBSD "is widely regarded as the most secure operating system available anywhere, under any licensing terms." [26] OpenBSD has spawned numerous child projects such as OpenSSH, OpenNTPD, OpenBGPD, OpenSMTPD, PF, CARP, and LibreSSL. Many of these are designed to replace restricted alternatives.
Tracking errata on OpenBSD-stable. Gentoo/OpenBSD: Gentoo/*BSD was a subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system. MarBSD LiveCD of OpenBSD LibertyBSD Discounted. Fork of OpenBSD with all non-free binaries removed. MicroBSD: Fork of the UNIX-like BSD operating system descendant OpenBSD 3.0, begun in July 2002.
Apart from running on its home platform OpenBSD, PF has been ported to many other operating systems, however there are major differences in capabilities. Some ports date back many years. OpenBSD always has the latest version with the most features. PF is currently used in: FreeBSD starting with version 5.3 [5]
OpenSMTPD (also known as OpenBSD SMTP Server) is a Unix daemon implementing the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol to deliver messages on a local machine or to relay them to other SMTP servers. It was publicly released on 17 March 2013 with version number 5.3, after being in development since late 2008.